Re: [PATCH v3] hw/block/nand: Decommission the NAND museum

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 14.12.2020 um 11:02 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 00:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the QEMU equivalent of this Linux commit (but 7 years later):
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7025a43a9da2
> >
> >     The MTD subsystem has its own small museum of ancient NANDs
> >     in a form of the CONFIG_MTD_NAND_MUSEUM_IDS configuration option.
> >     The museum contains stone age NANDs with 256 bytes pages, as well
> >     as iron age NANDs with 512 bytes per page and up to 8MiB page size.
> >
> >     It is with great sorrow that I inform you that the museum is being
> >     decommissioned. The MTD subsystem is out of budget for Kconfig
> >     options and already has too many of them, and there is a general
> >     kernel trend to simplify the configuration menu.
> >
> >     We remove the stone age exhibits along with closing the museum,
> >     but some of the iron age ones are transferred to the regular NAND
> >     depot. Namely, only those which have unique device IDs are
> >     transferred, and the ones which have conflicting device IDs are
> >     removed.
> >
> > The machine using this device are:
> > - axis-dev88
> > - tosa (via tc6393xb_init)
> > - spitz based (akita, borzoi, terrier)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> > ---
> > v3: Do not manually convert tabs to space to avoid mistakes...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin